Contents
Introduction by Laurel V. McLaughlin and Carrie Robbins
The Artist as Researcher
1. Tania El Khoury and Abir Saksouk (Dictaphone Group) | Camp Pause: Stories from Rashidieh Camp and the Sea
2. Sascha Crasnow | Bringing Research to Live Art: Considering Tania El Khoury’s Interactive Installations within Lebanese Research-Based Practices
The Artist as Archivist
3. Samer Abboud | Narrating Syria’s Conflict through Intimate Memories in Gardens Speak
4. Sue Breakell | Generative, Iterative Acts: Working with Archives
The Artist as Collaborator
5. Beth Derderian | The Affective Power of the Everyday: Trauma, Empathy and the Quotidian in the Work of Tania El Khoury
6. Kinana Issa | Survival of the Deadest
7. Anna Gallagher-Ross with Ron Berry, Kate Craddock, Lisa Kraus, and Gideon Lester | On Curating Festivals and Collaborating with Tania El Khoury
The Audience as Participant
8. Olivia Lamont Bishop | Listening Hands: Sensing Places of Conflict and Transience in Tania El Khoury’s Gardens Speak and As Far As My Fingertips Take Me
9. Laurel V. McLaughlin | Reckoning with Contact within a Performative “Migratory Aesthetics”
Immersive Social Art and Knowledge Production across Disciplines and Histories
10. David S. Byers and Anan Fareed | Should Life in Refugee Camps Feel “Normal”? The Ethical Stakes of Social Work among Displaced Palestinians
11. Jennie Bradbury | The Ground Speaks: Memorializing and Forgetting the Dead in the Ancient Middle East
A Case Study in Immersive Social Art as Knowledge Production Tania El Khoury at Bryn Mawr College
ear-whispered: works by Tania El Khoury | Bryn Mawr College, Twelve Gates Arts, and PII Gallery, September 6–23, 2018
12. Lisa Kraus | Foreword to the Case Study
13. Talia Shiroma | Sense of Authority: Reflections on Interning with ear-whispered
About the Contributors
Media List
Bibliography